Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth
Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!" What is he joking about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandpa · What happens: pat, joke · To what, where: belly
This is test 5 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Grandpa pats his belly: "Bit of extra padding for winter, eh!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandpa | Grandpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pats | nsubj |
| 2 | pats | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 belly | nmod:poss |
| 4 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pats | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bit | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bit | punct |
| 7 | Bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pats | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 padding | case |
| 9 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 padding | amod |
| 10 | padding | padding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bit | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 padding | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eh | punct |
| 14 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 Bit | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bit | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | present | Grandpa | Grandpa's belly | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is he joking about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 joking | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 joking | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 joking | nsubj |
| 4 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 joking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 joking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | Grandpa | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His winter coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coat | compound |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His fat belly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 belly | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belly | compound |
| 3 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A heater
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heater | det |
| 2 | heater | heater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His pillow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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